LGBT people behave as rational humans

A letter writer recently stated that several years ago he predicted that when society accepts homosexuality, that other illegal sexual practices would follow. He was reminded of this, he wrote, when he read that Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, compared pedophilia, masochism, etc. as sexual orientations like homosexuality. One reads statements like these and realizes that this is how they see gay people — as purely sexual beings. Do these religious critics ever stop to think that members of the LGBT community behave as rational human beings: they have jobs, careers, have friends of all persuasions, pay bills, pay taxes with many living with someone they love — and even adopt children into loving households? And a great many attend churches which do not preach hatred of others who follow a different lifestyle.